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T etragnatha panop ea L. Koch 
NIUE: 1 Female, 1 male. 
AITUTAKI: 3 Males. 
T etragnatha macilenta L. Koch 
NIUE: 2 Females. 
AITUTAKI: 1 Male. The identification of species 
of T etragnatha is only tentative. 
EPEIRIDAE 
Epeira t heist Walckenaer 
NIUE: 9 Females, 1 male. 
AITUTAKI: 10 Females, 5 males. 
mangaia: 3 Females. 
RAKAHANGA: 1 6 Females. 
MANIHIKI: 1 imm. One immature epeirid ap- 
parently belonging to another species was 
collected on Niue. 
Nephila prolix a L. Koch 
NIUE: 1 Female and many imm., 4 males imm. 
Cyrtophora moluccensis Doleschall 
NIUE: 6 Females, 5 males and many imm. 
SUMMARY 
New collections of spiders are described from 
the Cook Islands and Niue which bring the total 
numbers recorded to 31 and 29, respectively. 
These faunas are compared with those of the 
Society Islands to the east and with those of 
Tonga and Samoa to the west, and the greater 
resemblance seems to be with those of the west. 
One new genus and species is proposed: Aitu- 
takia armata, of the Linyphiidae. 
PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. XIV, October I960 
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